- Fugitive film director Roman Polanski has made it clear to the LA courts he's got no plans to leave France and to appear at a hearing.
- Police are still trying to determine the identity of a deceased homeless man, whose body was discovered on Glendale Boulevard Saturday morning.
- Woodlawn Cemetery is considering allowing non-Santa Monicans (SaMoians? Santa Monicanians?) to be buried there in order to combat financial difficulties.
- Drivers using the 22 in Garden Grove this morning encountered another driver who should have stayed home and hit the snooze button instead of getting behind the wheel.
- New parents in Newport Beach welcomed one heck of a big baby this weekend.
- Arcadia's Westfield Santa Anita mall is preparing to celebrate their new outdoor promenade section, with festivities planned for Thursday.
- Tourists and theme park enthusiasts are scaling back, and so are the theme parks themselves. Here's a roundup of new attractions opened or opening this year in SoCal.
- Going, going, gone: Hollywood Wax Museum auctioned off some of their celeb figures.




It doesn't make sense that Polanski would try to come back at this point. He's old, well-established, generally still well liked in his respected field, and is fully capable of still working. There's no real carrot on the other end of the CA gov't stick to entice him to return.